DARWIN, Charles (1809-82) & Francis DARWIN (1848-1925, editor). The Foundations of the Origin of Species.

DARWIN, Charles (1809-82) and Francis DARWIN (1848-1925, editor). The Foundations of the Origin of Species. Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844 by Charles Darwin. Edited by his Son Francis Darwin. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1909. Large 8vo (223 x 145mm). Half title, photogravure portrait frontispiece, plate (frontispiece detached, some margins of leaves and rear endpapers with juvenile crayon and coloured pen doodles, occasional light spotting and staining). Original tan buckram, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine darkened, some light staining, a few spots). Provenance: W. H. H. Fletcher (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION.